From bb4503615d95d6826b7907986ad574e3157877e8 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Tim Gardner Date: Thu, 12 Jan 2012 16:31:55 +0100 Subject: [PATCH] ecryptfs: Remove unnecessary variable initialization Removes unneeded variable initialization in ecryptfs_read_metadata(). Also adds a small comment to help explain metadata reading logic. [tyhicks@canonical.com: Pulled out of for-stable patch and wrote commit msg] Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner Signed-off-by: Tyler Hicks --- fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c | 5 +++-- 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c index 2bf52033538b..ff981503b3e3 100644 --- a/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c +++ b/fs/ecryptfs/crypto.c @@ -1590,8 +1590,8 @@ int ecryptfs_read_and_validate_xattr_region(struct dentry *dentry, */ int ecryptfs_read_metadata(struct dentry *ecryptfs_dentry) { - int rc = 0; - char *page_virt = NULL; + int rc; + char *page_virt; struct inode *ecryptfs_inode = ecryptfs_dentry->d_inode; struct ecryptfs_crypt_stat *crypt_stat = &ecryptfs_inode_to_private(ecryptfs_inode)->crypt_stat; @@ -1616,6 +1616,7 @@ int ecryptfs_read_metadata(struct dentry *ecryptfs_dentry) ecryptfs_dentry, ECRYPTFS_VALIDATE_HEADER_SIZE); if (rc) { + /* metadata is not in the file header, so try xattrs */ memset(page_virt, 0, PAGE_CACHE_SIZE); rc = ecryptfs_read_xattr_region(page_virt, ecryptfs_inode); if (rc) { -- 2.30.2